Changes to integrate the forums into the AOOo project

1. Community

The forum community divides in:

• Site Admins
• Forum Admins
• Moderators
• Volunteers

Volunteers can be compared with Apache contributors. They have less rights in the forum and help to maintain then content.
Admins are persons with access to the underlying forum code.
Moderators are maintainers of the board working with the phpBB admin control panel.

Proposal #1:
Site Admins are added by Apache Infra

Proposal #2:
Forum Admins and Moderators need to be elected into the AOOo team as PMCs to manage the forum with the chance of binding votes. The current moderators and admins should be added as PMC immediately.

Proposal #3:
Forum staff who are elected as PMC must subscribe to the private@ mailinglist. They need to sign a ICLA (with real name).

Proposal #4:
After the initial committer "import", newly proposed moderators get the committer state. They must be discussed and voted on at ooo-dev as this is the standard for all new committers.

Proposal #4:
Moderators and administrators of the forum may give out "Volunteer" status at own will. A volunteer is a user with slightly extended rights and can be compared to a contributor (not a committer).

2. Technical changes

The forum is maintained via private subboards currently.

Proposal #1:
The private boards are put to read only.
A new public board "site governance" is established to discuss forum related tasks. The messages are sent automatically to a readonly mailinglist name "forum-sitegovernance@".
A new private board "private xxx" is established to discuss sensitive tasks, like for example user behavior. The messages are sent automatically to "private@" with a specific tag [forum].